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If you're a member of the Dartmouth community, you probably have a stack of reading that you've been meaning to catch up on. But where to start? Help is on the way.

Friday, February 28, 2014

All Day

Baker-Berry Library

Sponsored by: Library

Intended Audience(s): Public

Categories: Exhibitions

If you're a member of the Dartmouth community, you probably have a stack of reading that you've been meaning to catch up on. Maybe you read reviews and add e-books to your tablet, thinking that you'll get in some great reading the next time you have a long trip. Perhaps you're a traditionalist and keep a stack of books on your bedside table or on the corner of your desk, or in somewhat neat piles on the floor in front of the already overflowing bookshelves in your office or at home... If one or more of these images seems guiltily familiar, you may not wish to have the Library top off your reading backlog with the 52,000-plus titles we purchased last year. Where to start?

Help is on the way. To whet your appetite, librarians have selected for your attention some new titles that offer something unexpected: a spotlight on a neglected master; a graphic novel on imagined and unimaginable loss; a calm, cogent voice slicing through hot debate; an accessible recounting of the history of the universe, from ancient galaxies to the discovery of water on Mars; and what's for lunch. And much more.

For the most part, this selection of 2013 titles is readable by all members of that delightful French book review class called "the cultivated public." This, of course, is you. We hope that you find something delectable that you might not have heard about otherwise.